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Unit 1 - Physics 4451

 

- setting of the context of the material to be studdies and expected use of ICT, mathematics and communication skills throughout the course
- nature, properties, production, uses and dangers of electromagnetic radiation.
- application of the Law of Conservation of Energy to commercial production of electricity in the UK.
- Conduction, convection and radiation - methods of transfer of heat energy and how the rate they travel can be maximised/minimised.
- nature, properties, uses and dangers of radioactive substances
- theories of the origin of the Universe and the evidence we have to support our current ideas